About Experian:
We are the leading global information services company, providing data and analytical tools to our clients around the world. We help businesses to manage credit risk, prevent fraud, target marketing offers and automate decision making. We also help people to check their credit report and credit score, and protect against identity theft.

In 2018, for a fifth consecutive year, Experian has been named to Forbes Magazine’s Top 100 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies.”

We employ approximately 17,000 people in 37 countries and our corporate headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Nottingham, UK; California, US; and São Paulo, Brazil.

At Experian, we are committed to building an inclusive culture and creating an environment where people can balance successful careers with their commitments and interests outside of work. Our flexible working practices support our belief that this balance brings long-lasting benefits for our business as well as our people. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, and if this is important to you, we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

Position Title: Senior Java Developer – Experian Data Quality

The Experian Data Services teams drive the direction of, and deliver enhancements to the Experian real time and bulk contact data management solutions. As a senior member of a self-organising agile team you’ll play a key part in shaping the future of our contact data quality capabilities and take a leading role throughout the breadth of the software development life cycle, refining user stories to implementing solutions and associated automated tests. This is a dynamic role requiring sound judgement when balancing perfectionism and pragmatism with the ability to react to the ever changing needs of our users and constantly look for ways to improve our engineering effectiveness.

Responsibilities:
Takes ownership of all aspects of delivery to create world class products
Explore new approaches and develop innovative solutions to customer needs
Demonstrate good quality and testability of code, automation improvements and usability
Build a good understanding of the team’s products and of user stories on the product backlog to enable effective participation in backlog grooming and sprint planning
Work with other team members to prepare for and deliver feature demos and showcase to internal clients and customers
Regular direct contact with customers and networking with members of customer-facing parts of the business
Code debugging and bug fixing in our core products
Requirements:
Of graduate caliber or equivalent qualifications or experience.
Proven capability in one or more JVM languages Java, Scala or Kotlin
Proven capability of software component and integration design
Flexible and adaptable to learn and understand new technologies
Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving abilities, coupled with an enquiring mind and the ability to learn quickly
Good communicator, capable of expressing complex ideas to a wide range of technical and non-technical staff
Strong understanding of testing techniques, automated testing and the value of a test-first approach to deliver a high-quality solution that meets client needs
Working experience with Agile product development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban or Lean)
Automated testing (unit testing, TDD or BDD)
Experience with developing for Linux platforms
Experience with git, build and release automation pipelines
Any of the following abilities and skills will be considered as an advantage:
Experience using Message Queues such as ActiveMQ
Understanding of both relational and NoSQL database systems (MySQL, Cassandra or Elasticsearch)
Experience building REST web services